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Moral Hazard in Health Insurance: What We Know and How …

WebIn the context of health insurance, the term “moral hazard” is widely used (and slightly abused) to capture the notion that insurance coverage, by lowering the marginal cost of …

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The risk of losing health insurance in the United States is …

WebThe risk of losing health insurance in the United States is large, and 20, , coverage.

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Health Care Hotspotting — A Randomized, Controlled Trial

WebThe Camden Core Model is a care-transition pro-gram designed to improve patient health and re-duce hospital use among some of the least healthy and most vulnerable adults in …

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Amy Finkelstein MIT Economics

WebAmy Finkelstein is the John & Jennie S. MacDonald Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the co-founder and co-Scientific Director …

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Approaches to Estimating the Health State Dependence of the …

Webnatural way to estimate state dependence of the utility function is to examine willing-ness to pay for products that offer state-depen-dent payoff streams. Health insurance is the …

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Subsidizing Health Insurance for Low-Income Adults: Evidence …

WebUsing administrative data from Massachusetts’ subsidized insurance exchange, we exploit discontinuities in the subsidy schedule to esti-mate willingness to pay and costs of …

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Jonathan Gruber MIT Economics

WebDr. Jonathan Gruber is the Ford Professor of Economics and the Chairman of the Economics Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has …

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ECONOMICS Poverty, depression, and anxiety: Causal …

WebRates of depression, anxiety, and suicide correlate negatively with income (4 7) and employment (5, 8). Those with the lowest incomes in a community suffer 1.5 to 3 times …

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Why is end-of-life spending so high

Web1Introduction Medical spending is highly concentrated at the end of life. A widely cited fact is that, in the United States, only 5% of Medicare bene ciaries die each year, but one …

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MORAL HAZARD IN HEALTH INSURANCE: DO DYNAMIC …

WebMORAL HAZARD IN HEALTH INSURANCE: DO DYNAMIC INCENTIVES MATTER? Aviva Aron-Dine, Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein, and Mark Cullen* Abstract—Using data from …

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THE QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS

Webpercent in 1960 to about 16 percent in 2004 [CMS 2004]. Early work by Feldstein [1971, 1977] suggested that the spread of health insurance was a primary cause of the rapid …

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Can a Trusted Messenger Change Behavior when Information …

Web4 The intervention also exhibited a significant impact on COVID-19 related health behaviors as reported by the village elected leaders. Surveyed individuals in

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THE QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS

WebMost strikingly, they appear to be in quite poor health: 18% report having ever been diagnosed with diabetes, 28% with asthma, 40% with high blood pressure; 56% screen …

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Optimal Long-Term Health Insurance Contracts: …

WebOptimal Long-Term Health Insurance Contracts: Characterization, Computation, and Welfare E ects Soheil Ghiliy, Ben Handel z, Igal Hendel x, and Michael D. Whinston { …

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Casey C. McQuillan Owen M. Zidar

Webthe 2019 college premium would have been 10 to 13 percent lower (compared to our baseline estimate of 11 percent), and the rise in the college wage premium between …

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Wealth, health, and health services in rural Rajasthan1

WebWealth, health, and health services in rural Rajasthan1 Abhijit Banerjee2 Angus Deaton3 Esther Duflo4 December 2003 1 We thank Seva Mandir for their invaluable help in …

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